Tag: zinc chromate

• Green Is The Colour Of My True Love’s Cockpit…

  

  And it would appear that I must needs have many loves. I have two pots of paint in the Little Workshop stocks at present – both green – that I use to paint USAAF aircraft of the WW2 period’s insides. One is a custom mix zinc chromate and the other a Testor’s cockpit green. Neither…

  Dick Stein

  November 13, 2019

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, British aircraft, Colour Schemes, Lacquer, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Painting, research, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  cockpit paint, green paint, zinc chromate

• Consolidated Liberator B.VI – Part Two – The Green Crew

  

  And green they are – if not in experience, then at least around the gills at that horrible chromate colour in the aft fuselage. The cockpit is proper FS cockpit green for the Skipper and the co-pilot but everyone else has to work in the cheap section of the plane, and the cheap sections are…

  Dick Stein

  July 26, 2019

  1:72 scale, Acrylic, British aircraft, Colour Schemes, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting, research, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Airfix, Consolidated Liberator, interiror, paint, zinc chromate

• Vultee Vengeance – Part Three – How Green Was My Vultee

  

  If the fumes from the paint don’t kill me, the bad puns will. Probably through the agency of enraged listeners seeking me out to stop them. Actually, I am very proud of this one, as it involves real thinking and research. As I am building a Vultee Vengeance in RAF or RAAF service ( not…

  Dick Stein

  October 10, 2018

  1:72 scale, Acrylic, Australian aircraft, British aircraft, camouflage, Colour Schemes, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Painting, research, Scale Models

  cockpit, lacquer paint, Mr. Color, RAAF, Vultee, zinc chromate